patch 8.0.0880: Travis uses an old Ubuntu version commit https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/02113ed4dfa585b4553a7c630b4d7eed0002aebd Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org> Date: Sun Aug 6 17:06:24 2017 +0200 patch 8.0.0880: Travis uses an old Ubuntu version Problem: Travis uses an old Ubuntu version. Solution: Switch from precise to trusty. (Ken Takata, closes https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1897)

README_src.txt for version 8.0 of Vim: Vi IMproved.

The source archive contains the files needed to compile Vim on Unix systems.
It is packed for Unix systems (NL line separator).

For more information, see the README.txt file that comes with the runtime
archive (vim-8.0-rt.tar.gz).  To be able to run Vim you MUST get the runtime
archive too!